necrophagous
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“Unlike gut piles, which are often peppered with bullet fragments, car-killed opossums and squirrels come lead-free, Whole Foods for the necrophagous set.”
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023
The skin was almost entirely enclosing the skeleton, and inside were millions of the pupa-cases of flies and other insects, with thousands of two or three species of small necrophagous beetles.
From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Wallace, Alfred Russel
His, indeed, is a scholarship which is essentially necrophagous.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
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